SB158 provides that the Alabama Firearm Prohibited Person database include “mentally ill persons” involuntary committed for “outpatient treatment.”
The Senate passed SB158 on June 1, 2023, by a vote of 29 to 0. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this is a ‘red flag’ law that will further enlarge the unconstitutional state firearms prohibited person database, which had already included “mentally ill persons” involuntary committed for “inpatient treatment.” ‘Red flag’ laws are the latest gun control effort to permanently confiscate firearms from American citizens who have not even been charged with a crime—let alone found guilty. In conjunction with “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment guarantee that no person shall be deprived of their liberty or property without due process.